The Principles of Scientific Management

The capacity of a workman’s production depends on many circumstances, and particularly on the nature of the materials placed at his disposal. This chapter presents any amount of excellent advice having for its end the scientific organisation of that most important side of life, the home of the family. F. W. Taylor’s system is most certainly indisputably scientific in character, and all those who desire, henceforth, to study the organisation of labour, will be unable to ignore his system. There is a confirmation of the information collected by Coulomb, de Chauveau, A. Mosso, and M. Imbert regarding the evaluation of output, and on the economic methods of the work of the human motor. The effect of working according to scientific rules produced the result that the work was accomplished four times as quickly as before. The chapter concludes that no political party should derive any benefit from the scientific management of labour, but society as a whole.